A new member of our list who has not posted yet, asked me about ELLEN HARKEY who was born in 1832 in Arkansas. This is before any of my Harkey family came to Arkansas. Then our new member , Laurey, said that both Ellen Harkey's parents were born in Virginia. This really surprised me. She married Edward B.F. REAL in 1874. Do any of you know Ellen Harkey? She was over 40 when this marriage took place. Wonder if she was a widow? I thought more about Harkey's in Virginia. We have heard of Conrad Harky who was there in 1755. I didn't know of others. I happened to get a chance to go to a library and I looked at some census index books. I found Harkerder, Conrad, John and Solomon in Wythe Co. 1820? I found Harkerider, Harkier, Harkle and Harkum. On the 1830 census Index I found, Harker, Harkerader Harkley and finally I found ZEBULON HARKEY In Prince WM. Co. I have a Zane, Zilpha and Zelas in my database but no Zebulon. I kept looking at Census of Virginia and found on the 1850 census MARTIN HARKEY in Preston Co. I can't read microfilm and haven't tried on the internet yet to find out who this Martin is. I am curious about all this. Hope one or more of you can shed some light on this. Mary Harkey Russell bird@scrtc.com